HTZc3SNl.js:1 Failed to generate speech: Error: Invalid API response format at Z (HTZc3SNl.js:1:29240)
That might work, but not for selling to Brits because they expect some sort of a local accent. Universal/unlocalised voice does not sound natural or believable to them.
(Also struggled getting it working at all as others already noted.)
Awesome stuff.
Meanwhile the rest of the world thinks an American accent is either "Travis Bickle" or "Yosemite Sam."
Who uses this term? English, Welsh and Scottish accents sound nothing like each other!
The reality is that no accent (not even english ones) sound like each other technically. Consider a south east accent with a scouse accent, for example. Both English, both nothing like each other.
I believe the correct expression would be "British accents".
That said, when I use the term British accent, I do usually mean English, I think. Sorry. Also sorry for all the times I used England when I meant UK, or UK when I meant Great Britain, or vice versa.
And the Appalachian accents of Justified sound very different to the Mid-Atlantic accent of Frasier Crane -- yet to me, as an outsider, there is still an indefinable "Americanness" common to them all.
pjc50•1h ago
"Nature Show Host": not David Attenborough, surprisingly
"Compelling Lady": nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday
"Upset Girl": this is more the voiceover that would be used on depressing animal charity adverts
"Magnetic Man": you can't fool me, that's an American
"Patient Man": patience gives you reverb. The word "British" is spoken with a very non-British accent.
Not to be all Henry Higgins, but these are all "placeless" accents and there are no regional accent options. I was looking forward to trying Computer Mancunian. But I can see why for marketing voiceover people want "global neutral British".
UX review: "failed to generate speech". Only the example phrases work.
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